The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

There should be an absolute discipline in the house of God

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.

Jesus Christ must be at the heart of every sermon you preach.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.